Senior Process Development Lead, Food Innovation

Greencore Group plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore Group plc is seeking a Process Development Manager to lead customer and category PD activities, ensuring right first-time launches and strong cross-functional collaboration. You will input product knowledge, align with customer requirements, and drive feasibility through to implementation across the NPD agenda.

The role emphasizes leadership, project management, and the ability to build solid customer relationships while maintaining product quality and margins.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high quality, sustainable, commercial products.
• Ability to lead multiple projects and prioritise own and others' focus accordingly.
• Good understanding of food manufacturing principles demonstrated through feasibility of proposals.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities.
• Shows customer service values and is well respected by customers as a food authority.
• Desired: food related degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead the project management of all customer and category PD activity to meet the critical path and feasibility plans and ensure successful right first-time launches.
• Input product knowledge and customer insight within category team to ensure product development is aligned with all key customer requirements and meets financial measurements.
• Introduce, refine and robustly test the design of new product concepts throughout creative and implementation stage to ensure the feasibility, sustainability and ability to meet commercial targets.
• Lead feasibility meetings/internal reviews ensuring that site teams are kept informed of all activity updates and follow up actions are completed.
• Lead the PD team throughout the implementation phase, tracking progress and resolving issues identified within scale up trials, to achieve timely implementation and hit targeted launch dates.
• Custodian of product quality, ensuring accurate margin target delivery against the commercial brief.
• Build and maintain customer relationships, acting as the dedicated customer/category contact, to provide accurate and consistent communication internally and externally whilst identifying and resolving issues promptly.
• Stakeholder management of operational peers to promote collaborative ways of working and delivery of the NPD agenda.
• Develop the team capability through task focused coaching to ensure maximum performance and development to their potential.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Food manufacturing knowledge

Customer relationship management

Education

Food-related degree

Job description

Greencore Group plc is seeking a Process Development Manager to lead customer and category PD activities, ensuring right first-time launches and strong cross-functional collaboration. You will input product knowledge, align with customer requirements, and drive feasibility through to implementation across the NPD agenda.

The role emphasizes leadership, project management, and the ability to build solid customer relationships while maintaining product quality and margins.